This is the Science Fiction Book Club's list of the 50 most significant SF/fantasy novels. Ones I've read are bold; ones I hated are struck out; ones I started but never finished are italicized; ones I loved are underlined.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov

3. Dune, Frank Herbert

4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein

5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

6. Neuromancer, William Gibson

7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe

12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.

13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov

14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras

15. Cities in Flight, James Blish

16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett

17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison

18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison

19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany

21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey

22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson

:/ I hated the second one with a passion; it kind of soured me on the series as a whole. I've heard it gets better with the third one, but with the second one being so, for lack of a better word, boring... I can't bring myself to try the third.

the guy who got me into dune had read all 6 and said that after you finish the 6th one all of them have a new meaning... so i kept reading through the 4th with the sole intention of starting the 5th... ij ust haven't gotten aroudn to that 5th one yet :)